Carter: I've had threats since leaving White House

Jul. 24, 2013
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Former president Jimmy Carter / David Goldman, AP

by David Jackson, USA TODAY

by David Jackson, USA TODAY

Former president Jimmy Carter says his life has been threatened several times since leaving the White House more than three decades ago.

"I have had two or three threats to my life after I came home from the White House," Carter tells Larry Sabato for his book The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy, reports the Washington Examiner.

The book is due out in October.

Carter added: "When I go on an overseas trip, almost invariably I get a report from the Secret Service that where I'm going is very dangerous."

We suspect other ex-presidents also get threats - the main reason they still receive Secret Service protection.

"Carter also told Sabato: 'Sometimes they (Secret Service) ask me not to go, and I go anyway. They and I both just laugh about it. So I have been more concerned about my safety in doing the Carter Center's business overseas than I ever was in the White House.'"